When Lungelo Zondi first learnt about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamt of having a live feed into the universe for uninterrupted space exploration.Today, aged 25, her childhood vision has pretty much come true.From her desk in Cape Town, Zondi monitors one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, the MeerKAT, …
At the end of the day, traders in Butembo get ready to hit the road in this large commercial city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Eric Kambale revved up the engine of his Mitsubishi Fuso truck for the long and perilous journey home.It threatens to be not just dangerous — but expensive. Normally, he avoids …
Conflict in eastern DR Congo batters traders’ livelihoodsTue, 13 May 2025 11:15:46 GMT Read More »
Junta-ruled Guinea is doing “everything” to ensure presidential and parliamentary elections are held in December, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah told AFP on Tuesday.The west African country’s junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya has promised that 2025 would be “a crucial electoral year” and has announced a constitutional referendum in September.But no date had yet been …
Guinea doing ‘everything’ to hold elections in December: PMTue, 13 May 2025 10:58:44 GMT Read More »
A group of around 50 white South Africans arrived on Monday for resettlement in the United States after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status as victims of what he called a “genocide.”Trump essentially halted refugee arrivals after taking office, but is making an exception for the Afrikaners despite Pretoria’s insistence that they do not …
Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader, barred from standing in an October presidential vote, said Monday he was resigning as party leader but was counting on being reappointed to fight the election.Political tensions are running high in the west African country where several opposition figures have been declared ineligible to stand.For months, Tidjane Thiam’s campaign for …
Fresh jihadist violence has killed “several dozen” soldiers and civilians in simultaneous attacks in a town in northern Burkina Faso which for three years has been besieged by armed groups.The junta-ruled west African country has endured a decade of attacks by jihadist armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. On Sunday, hundreds of jihadists carried …
Jihadist attack kills ‘several dozen’ in Burkina FasoMon, 12 May 2025 15:20:36 GMT Read More »
Kenya’s President William Ruto said Monday that all those abducted in the wake of anti-government protests had been “returned to their families” and promised it would not happen again.It was one of the clearest admissions by the president that security forces had engaged in widespread kidnappings and illegal detentions following massive protests last June and …
The white Afrikaners who have accepted resettlement in the United States did not face “any form of persecution” in South Africa, the foreign ministry said on Monday. It came hours after a first group of 49 white South Africans flew out of Johannesburg following US President Donald Trump’s offer to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners.Mainly …
Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader, who has been barred from standing in an October presidential vote, said Monday that he was resigning as party leader but would still lead the fight to win the election.Six months before voters choose a new head of state, political tensions are running high in the west African country where …
France’s foreign minister on Monday vowed an immediate and strong response from Paris after Algeria revealed plans to expel more French officials from Algerian territory after a similar move last month.Relations between Algeria and France, the former colonial power in Africa’s largest nation by land area, have been beset by a series of problems in …
